Chapter 101 - Trouble in party [1] (1/2)

”What are you doing?”

Hearing that voice, Moon Jiwoo turned her head to see Sookyung standing behind her, and he had his hands folded over his ċhėst. Judging from his expression, he had not heard about what she said.

Jiwoo noticed how some of the females were lovestruck at the sight of him while the rest scrutinized him, thinking whether or not to believe the words that Jiwoo just told them.

”Nothing, just making some friends, Sookyung. Shouldn't you be hanging out with Yejoon? After all, he was the one who dressed this much for, and you really looked forward to meeting him. Things have been hard for you this few days since you were unable to see him,” Moon Jiwoo spoke out, trying to insinuate at something.

”What do you mean?”

Staring at the confused expression on Sookyung's face, she decided to grab him out of the scene before he exposed all of her lies. That would be taking out the fun out of it.

Wrapping her hand around his wrist, she gripped it tightly and pulled him away, while she felt a smirk forming on her face. Doing something evil after a long time really felt pleasant to Moon Jiwoo.

After they have reached one of the corners of the palace, Jiwoo smiled and asked, ”Why did you approach me? I was having a pleasant time with the ladies, and you ruined it.”

”With so many ladies gathered around you, I am confident that you were only trying to create trouble. What's with all the nonsense you uttered back then?” Sookyung had one of his eyebrows raised.

Turning her gaze away, Jiwoo spoke out, ”About that, it was because of you, Oh Sookyung. Those ladies would not have let go of you. That's why, I had come up with something like that on the spot. Are you an idiot for approaching a tiger's den without any prior preparation!?”

Leaning his face closer to Moon Jiwoo, Sookyung said, ”Why am I having this intuition that you are hiding something from me, Shin Daerin? You are acting really suspicious.”

Jiwoo had recently learned on how easily get face gave away her emotions, and not wanting for Sookyung— who was surprisingly good when it came to figuring it out— to decipher it all, she knew that she had to escape from the situation.

Raising her hand, she touched his ċhėst and pushed him away little backwards. Then, looking down, she said, ”Let's talk about all of this later on. I have to rush to the bathroom right now.”

Without giving him a chance to speak about it, Moon Jiwoo turned her back on him and ran away from the scene.

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”Are you going to be his mistress?” a woman questioned.

Moon Jiwoo was currently in the washroom, and standing before the mirror, she was trying to fix her make up when a woman stood in front of the mirror beside her.

At the woman's question, Jiwoo found herself being caught off guard, and raising one of her eyebrows, she turned her head to stare at the woman.

”What do you mean?” Jiwoo asked— creases forming between both of her eyebrows.

”Are you pretending to be innocent or something?” the woman voiced out.

In her last life, she was used to dealing with such situations all the time, but she did not think that she would facing it at here as well. The arrogance the female showed heightened up Jiwoo's one as well.

”How is that any of your business?” Jiwoo spoke out— her eyes not hiding her anger.

Dealing with jealous woman was something she detested even if Jiwoo had done some absurd things herself due to envy.

The woman scoffed and said, ”Look, I don't care about all the protector bullshit. Maybe you have protected him and all that nonsense. But this doesn't mean that you can keep him all to yourself. Tch! I don't know what you are expecting by sticking to him like that. You are a pest to him right now.”